Fandom Bullshit

[jedibuttercup]

*shaking head* You know, the reviews for backagainharry over at The Pit of Voles-- and the review thread at the Dark Lord Potter Forums (which has at least increased my readership, though I find it baffling that they reviewed it at all given their biases)-- have pretty much transcended annoyance now and reached the realm of an interesting sociological study.

It's fascinating to me how many people judge me as a writer based solely on this one story, less than thirty thousand words out of more than half a million in my complete body of work. And then they make assumptions that the story's going to be "just another canon-humper" based solely on the chapters available to view. Because they want instant gratification, and all this setting-the-scene shit is much too boring for them to tolerate, and makes Harry too "wimpy" for their tastes. Gee, should I apologize for trying to make it realistic?

I greatly appreciate the other sort of reviewer, many of whom read here on LJ, who have bothered to tell me what I'm doing right, and give me the benefit of the doubt as to what I have planned. You keep me going on this. But I don't think I'm going to attempt any more longfic in the Harry Potter universe after I'm done with it. And I'll probably even end BAH at a decent pausing point in the action sometime during the summer or the beginning of second year and leave the universe fallow a good long while. At least in the crossover (and small-fandom) realms, people usually at least assume that I'm intelligent and creative; it's a much more energizing atmosphere to write in.
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[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you want we can feed you plot bunnies. (Besides, if you can just hold out till Harry's second year, you get to have Luna Lovegood to play with! Luna's a sure-fire plot and author energizer.)